[wp-hackers] XHTML Strict compliant replacement for target=_new

[Geoffrey Lane]

As an aside, I pretty much agree with you on the user choice side of 
things. I just thought it would be interesting to have an XHTML 
compliant way of doing it if someone wants to.

One nit-pick though.
XHTML and DOM are 2 independent standards. *HTML standards (and others) 
are standards of markup that get represented in a browser/memory as DOM. 
DOM allows the target tag, so it should be legal. I too think it's a 
weird solution to the problem though.

Andy Skelton wrote:
> On 10/21/05, Jason Bainbridge <jbainbridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Firstly I think the whole target=_new thing is a pain to begin with,
>> if I want to open a link in a new window I'll middle click on it thank
>> you very much and if the damned link uses Javascript and the middle
>> click fails then more often then not I just won't follow the link.
> 
> Yes. If some blogger self-importantly presumes to make his external
> links prevent *my* browser from leaving his site, I most certainly
> WILL leave his site. I will thereafter lean away from that blogger's
> sites, writings, comments and opinions in the future. It's just a bad
> idea of the same ilk as trying to prevent people from viewing your
> source by cancelling right clicks. Counsel against it.
> 
> Furthermore, the fact that you /can/ dynamically add a target
> attribute to a an XHTML page in contemporary browsers does not make it
> good, proper, standard or strict. Sure, there aren't any "validators"
> that will complain because the XHTML looks good. However, to maintain
> the idea of "strict" it is not merely the XHTML that should be valid;
> it is the entire document, even while dynamic DOM manipulation occurs.
> This should play out in the near future when browsers begin to treat
> XHTML Strict pages /strictly/ and ignoring (or even complaining about)
> invalid dynamic manipulation of the DOM. That means making JS
> interpreters play by the rules, too.
> 
> That's my opinion, anyway.
> 
> Andy
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